Call for Papers:Health & New Media Research (HNMR) – Volume 8, Issue 2https://www.hnmr.org/newsletter/call_for_papers.html Deadline for submissions: October 31, 2024 We are pleased to invite submissions for Volume 8, Issue 2 of Health & New Media Research (HNMR), an international, open-access, peer-reviewed journal published biannually by the Health & New Media Research Institute at Hallym University, South Korea. AIMS & SCOPE HNMR focuses on the roles of new media (such as the Internet, mobile devices, games, and virtual reality) in public and environmental health. We encourage interdisciplinary research that tests theory, extends knowledge, or provides innovative solutions in the following areas:…

Call for Abstracts/Papers Ethics of Cyborgs, Robots, and the Posthuman: Reflections from Ancient Greece and Rome to the Present Day12th John Cabot University (JCU) Posthuman Studies WorkshopOctober 19, 2024Rome, Italyhttps://calendar.johncabot.edu/event/ethics-of-cyborgs-robots-and-the-posthuman Organizer: Prof. Stefan Lorenz Sorgner: www.sorgner.de Deadline for submission of abstracts: September 15, 2024 OVERVIEW: The rapid advancement of technology has propelled humanity into an era where the boundaries between humans, machines, and the posthuman are increasingly blurred. As we integrate more intimately with technology—through robotics, artificial intelligence, and cyborg enhancements—urgent ethical questions arise. How should we navigate these transformations, and what can we learn from the past to inform…

Call for Papers Human-Machine Communication Interest GroupInternational Communication Association (ICA)75th Anniversary ConferenceJune 12-16, 2025Denver, Colorado, USAHMC Interest Group: https://www.icahdq.org/mpage/HMC_CFPICA: https://www.icahdq.org/mpage/ICA25-theme Deadline for submissions: November 1, 2024 (at 12:00 noon EDT) The Human-Machine Communication (HMC) Interest Group supports and promotes scholarship regarding communication between people and technologies designed to enact the role of communicator. Such technologies include, but are not limited to, artificial intelligence (AI) software and devices, robots, digital and home assistants, automated-writing software, Large Language Models and smart agents. HMC research focuses on the meaning-making that unfolds when people engage directly with technology as a communicative subject rather than…

Call for Submissions “Philosophical Approaches to Games and Gamification: Ethical, Aesthetic, Technological and Political Perspectives”A topical issue of Open Philosophyhttps://philevents.org/event/show/116366 Edited by Giannis Perperidis (Panteion University, Greece) [NOTE: Article Publishing Charges (APC) may be required – see https://www.degruyter.com/publishing/publications/openaccess/open-access-articles/apcs –Matthew] Deadline for submissions: October 31, 2024 DESCRIPTION This special issue of Open Philosophy (https://www.degruyter.com/opphil) aims at exploring innovative philosophical approaches on games and gamification. Numerous philosophers in various historical periods attempted to explore the ontological, ethical, political and economic foundations of play and games. From Heraclitus to Kant, Nietzsche and most recent scholars, play and games are related to aesthetic, temporal,…

Call For Papers Cosmoramas and Other Peep Practices 1800-1880Special Issue of Early Popular Visual Culturehttps://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/08/07/cosmoramas-and-other-peep-practices-1800-1880 Deadline for expressions of interest: October 15, 2024 Before virtual reality, peeping has long been a widespread media practice. Since the 18th century, the world has been presented in lensed and boxed apparatuses that aroused wonder and seduced audiences. Our contemporary culture of immersion was initially launched by peepshows and cosmoramas: one of the earliest media systems in Europe that produced and distributed views. The cosmorama was one of the major formats in the evolving diversity of 19th-century peep practices, evident in telescopic paper versions,…